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Cemal Kafadar
is Vehbi Koc Professor of Turkish Studies in the
History Department. His study of early Ottoman history, Between
Two Worlds: The Construction of the Ottoman State, has been
translated into Greek and Turkish. Ever in search of fun in the
archives and libraries, his serendipitous discoveries there have led
to articles on autobiographical writing and to the edition of a Sufi
lady’s mid-17th century dream log. He continues to work on what he
considers to be related topics, including the history of coffeehouses,
uses of the night, forms of public entertainment, and formation of
public culture in early modern Middle Eastern and Balkan cities.

Zeynep Yasa Yaman
completed her studies in the Art History
Department of the Hacettepe University, where she is still a
professor of Art History. She has curated Group d Exhibition at the
Yapı Kredi Cultural Center, Kâzım Taşkent Art Gallery
(2004); Exhibition Beyond the Apparent at the Suna-İnan Kıraç
Foundation Pera Museum (2011); the exhibition Shadow and
Reality at the CaixaForum, Barcelona (2012); Different Impressions,
Changing Traditions at the Bonnefanten Museum, Maasricht, (2012);
and Modern Times at SALT Galata (2012), among others. She has
written extensively for the exhibitions in which she acted as
consultant or curator, including books, catalogue texts, artists’
monographs, criticism in various periodicals, and encyclopaedia
articles. In this extensive writing, she has focused on the issues of
the modern, modernity and modernization, as well as on
modernization under the Ottomans and in the Republican era.

Although assumed to be, a map is not a mere representation or just a visualization of data. As its definition clarifies, a map as a container of data is a tool to read the topological depiction and make use of rationality at scale. For this lecture-performance Arıkan will walk through a traversal, a path in the network, jumping from one node to another over the connections, presenting his recent works and discussing their positions.

The cultural and artistic patronage by the state that begun with the
foundation of the Republic of Turkey continued as a policy until the
1950s. During this period, many public institutions, including banks,
were patrons of visual artists. The talk will summarize some of these
policies and look at them in more detail.